Your particular iris is one of the very few I can get to grow in my yard. It was given to me. All my expensive, purchased ones have died.

Your second plant is perennial bachelor's button aka Centaurea montana. I got rid of mine, or tried to anyway, it keeps popping up even though I dig them out when I see them - does that give you a clue to its invasive habit? Keep an eye on it.

Your iris, which is beautiful, reminds me very much of the irises I grew up with. I remember my father 'grew' a patch in a corner of our garden in England. The patch seemed to get bigger every year. We called them 'Flags' then - I wonder where that name came from. Even though the bloom is short-lived my mother would pick a few each day to put in a vase.I don't remember ever seeing an iris any other colour!~BBQ

Zone 5bSouth/Central Ontario

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